The speculum : its moral tendencies / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
- Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
- Date:
- 1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The speculum : its moral tendencies / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![suaded to turn them to a similar use, their gains would be more honourable, whilst their patients ' would derive equal benefit. Then if anything more is wanted besides their universal aptitude to stamp these practices with suspicion, it is the never-varying time fixed for the recovery of the patients. Who, before this, ever heard of a period being fixed for the cure of any disorder? Yet here it is as accurately defined as that between seed-time and harvest; and, by the by, it is generally of about of that duration. In that time the cure is usually declared complete. The giants have been created and killed, the humours are dried up, and the dove returns no more unto the ark.* Then again these uterine complaints, contrary to the laws that govern local affections are made to assume an almost epidemic character, for it is by no means uncommon to hear that several members of the same household are under treat- ment, as they call it, at the same time. The uniformity, too, of this treatment, that I have before alluded to, is not the least remakable circumstance that attends this practice; if they were inanimate things, to which their appliances are made; if the subjects of them partook of the changeless character of inorganic life, instead of * Sec A])iK‘iulix.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22334749_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
